On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:31 PM, David Jagoe <davidja...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Out of curiosity, why is this useful to you?
>

It certainly has performance benefits.

When things are tested for equality (e.g., to test against keys in a hash
map), identical things are the fastest to recognize as equal.  Also, saves
on memory consumption and thus garbage collection.

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